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Sony UK today unveiled its latest Centrino notebook, two days before the technology on which it's based will be formally launched by Intel.

That probably explains why the Japanese giant is so frugal in listing the new Vaio FS series' processor specs. However, it did let slip that the machines will used Intel's 915M chipset family, formerly best known by its codename, 'Alviso', and essentially a mobile version of the desktop Pentium 4 chipset 'Grantsdale'.

There'll be a Pentium M chip in there, of course, almost certainly using Alviso's 533MHz frontside bus. And since the FS series is Centrino-branded, an Intel Wi-Fi adaptor too. Sony said the new machines will sport 802.11b/g WLAN connectivity.